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Eyefinity Display! - MD230

Are the bezels really that much thinner to justify the price hike?

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It's an all right price for what your getting but I can't see many gamers/home users actually buying it :P Might be good for companies like control rooms etc?

My bezels seem fairly small (i have the side monitors hidden behind the centre) not the best pictures to display the bezel but you really forget about them after 30mins of first playing with 3 monitors. If you had six I could see it being more of a problem as your cross-hair would be around the centre bezel.



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mine cost me about £320-330ish, + sold my old 22" monitor for £80 so it didn't seem that much :D

bear in mind I only have 21.5" monitors at 1920x1080
 
creed said:
well $1,800 for what cost me $450...
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You got 3 23" high quality hi res screens for £100 each?

You have to remember you get what you pay for. My NEC 24" was $900 each everywhere except ocuk where it was $600 so $600 each for these screens is a fair price depending on the rest of the spec of them and how they review.

Your comments is like saying why buy Dell UltraSharp 2209WA 22 at £254 each when you can buy a ViewSonic VA2213w 22" screen for £112 which is less than half price.

If these screens are indeed the resolution reported then it will be the first time you can buy a screen like that for less than $2000. Also they are definitely IPS with the viewing angles plus they also have a proven "real" contrast ratio of 3000:1 when you are lucky to find any other screen above 1000:1 (and don;t even look at dynamic)

Of course equally as good (and perhaps better) and cheaper screens will follow later.

I can remember when plain ordinary 22" screens cost £500+

The only problem is I can find no mention of them selling the screens by themselves and not in 3 or 6 layout but hopefully they will.
 
Orangey said:
Everywhere apart from engadget.
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Except that I have seen quite a few refer that 1080p is the current max that eyefinity can run on each screen which doesn't mean the screen can't do more.

Other problem is if you google it and there are over 100 reults describing the same thing which are just copy and pasted from the two articles contradicting each other.

So at the moment 50 websites say hi-res and 50 say 1080p.
 
hi res is 1080p no? http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10429182-269.html

Mine are 20" 1680x1050 Dell 2009w. Got them each at £115 Dell refurbs with 3yr warranty as far as i could tell they were as new. I got these at the time cos they were known to work at 57Hz (required by TH2G) and i didnt see the point in 1080p as TH2G doesnt go higher than 5040x1050. I didnt stick with TH2G cos i couldnt justify the £250 just for the box but i kept the screens and now everything is coming up millhouse with the advent of EF :D
 
how hard is it to make a monitor with removable bezels for people that want to game with multiple displays? it takes the ****, I mean how many times are you going to make the bezels that much thinner and charge double the price?
 
They do look nice but how far away from the screen would you need to sit ?

Think on the 6 screen version the bezels do need to be a lot thinner, think they need to talk to toshiba or someone as they have much thinner bezels.
 
Greebo said:
$1899 for three not pounds so about £400 each which considering the resolution of the screen is not a bad price tbh.
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Well its affordable, but people are drastically underestimating just how much a very high quality stand that can hold all that weight, and hold them safely and accurately together, a really high quality single screen stand can be well over £100, something that can handle 6 screens, well, thats going to cost a lot more.


THing is, this isn't just about extra resolution, eyefinity would work with 3x 640x480 screens, the point is to have screens out wide at an angle to simulate peripheral vision. Obviously a decent res is nice, honestly you really wouldn't want anything over 1680x1050 for a 6 screen setup due to, well, the trouble actually running it. Its really not feasable to run a gaming setup with 6 screens full stop, higher res will make even low settings unplayable(as most screens don't look great out of native res).

Its still a pipe dream for most though, probably sub 1% of 5850-5970 buyers will actually run 3 screens, less than 0.1% will run 6 screens.


But if I was rich this isn't the kind of setup that I'd go for, I can't find the picture now but there was an awesome thin tiny/almost no bezel curved surround screen, it looked damn amazing to be honest. It was a pic from CES so one of the websites covering CES will have a pic.
 
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